“Google is a browser.”
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Browser vs. Search engine
The application that displays web pages versus the service that finds them.
The comparisoni
“Google is a SEARCH ENGINE — a service for finding pages. The BROWSER (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) is the application that displays them.”
The ruleii
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BROWSER = app. SEARCH ENGINE = service.
BROWSER: the software you use to view web pages — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge. SEARCH ENGINE: the service that indexes and ranks pages — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo. Many people conflate them because Chrome's default homepage is Google.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
Chrome is the browser; Google is the search engine.